Why convert your Canva wedding site
Canva has some really nice wedding website templates. The problem isn't the design. It's the URL.
Printing sarahandjames.my.canva.site on your invitations looks a bit off. sarahandjames.com looks like you meant it. And it's easier for guests to remember and type in.
Beyond the URL, there's another reason: after the wedding, you probably won't keep paying for Canva Pro. But you might want that website to stick around as a keepsake. Converting it to HTML gives you a copy that works forever, with or without Canva.
Two reasons couples do this
1. A custom domain for the wedding
Buy a domain like sarahandjames.com (usually around $10/year). Convert your Canva site, upload it to Netlify (free), and point the domain at it. Now your wedding website has a clean, memorable URL you can put on save-the-dates, invitations, and group chats.
2. A keepsake after the event
Weddings are expensive and short. Your website had the photos, the story of how you met, the schedule, the playlist. It would be a shame to lose all that because you cancelled a subscription.
With canva-to-html, you get the complete site as files on your computer. Open the folder in a browser and it looks exactly the same. Keep it backed up forever. Show it to your kids someday.
What gets captured
- Every page of your site (schedule, RSVP, travel info, the whole thing).
- All your photos and images, saved locally.
- Fonts, colors, and layout, exactly as you designed them.
- Animations and scroll effects, if you used them.
The only thing that won't carry over is anything that relies on a live server, like an RSVP form connected to a Google Sheet. The form will still show up, but submissions won't go anywhere. For a keepsake, that's usually fine.
When to convert
If you want the custom domain for the wedding, convert as soon as your site is ready to share. If you're doing it as a keepsake, convert before you cancel Canva or take the site down.
Either way, do it while the site is still live. canva-to-html needs to visit the published URL to capture everything.
Convert your wedding site